{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53659 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-53659 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 7 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-53659 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-53659 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 7 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53659 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53659/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53659/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-53659","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53659/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-53659","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-53659","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53659","GHSA-h9wv-v64w-rmq6","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53659"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel driver","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A race condition in the iavf driver causes an out-of-bounds read during device removal, potentially leading to a kernel crash.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-125","name":"Out-of-bounds Read"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niavf: Fix out-of-bounds when setting channels on remove\n\nIf we set channels greater during iavf_remove(), and waiting reset done\nwould be timeout, then returned with error but changed num_active_queues\ndirectly, that will lead to OOB like the following logs. Because the\nnum_active_queues is greater than tx/rx_rings[] allocated actually.\n\nReproducer:\n\n  [root@host ~]# cat repro.sh\n  #!/bin/bash\n\n  pf_dbsf=\"0000:41:00.0\"\n  vf0_dbsf=\"0000:41:02.0\"\n  g_pids=()\n\n  function do_set_numvf()\n  {\n      echo 2 \u003e/sys/bus/pci/devices/${pf_dbsf}/sriov_numvfs\n      sleep $((RANDOM%3+1))\n      echo 0 \u003e/sys/bus/pci/devices/${pf_dbsf}/sriov_numvfs\n      sleep $((RANDOM%3+1))\n  }\n\n  function do_set_channel()\n  {\n      local nic=$(ls -1 --indicator-style=none /sys/bus/pci/devices/${vf0_dbsf}/net/)\n      [ -z \"$nic\" ] \u0026\u0026 { sleep $((RANDOM%3)) ; return 1; }\n      ifconfig $nic 192.168.18.5 netmask 255.255.255.0\n      ifconfig $nic up\n      ethtool -L $nic combined 1\n      ethtool -L $nic combined 4\n      sleep $((RANDOM%3))\n  }\n\n  function on_exit()\n  {\n      local pid\n      for pid in \"${g_pids[@]}\"; do\n          kill -0 \"$pid\" \u0026\u003e/dev/null \u0026\u0026 kill \"$pid\" \u0026\u003e/dev/null\n      done\n      g_pids=()\n  }\n\n  trap \"on_exit; exit\" EXIT\n\n  while :; do do_set_numvf ; done \u0026\n  g_pids+=($!)\n  while :; do do_set_channel ; done \u0026\n  g_pids+=($!)\n\n  wait\n\nResult:\n\n[ 3506.152887] iavf 0000:41:02.0: Removing device\n[ 3510.400799] ==================================================================\n[ 3510.400820] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in iavf_free_all_tx_resources+0x156/0x160 [iavf]\n[ 3510.400823] Read of size 8 at addr ffff88b6f9311008 by task repro.sh/55536\n[ 3510.400823]\n[ 3510.400830] CPU: 101 PID: 55536 Comm: repro.sh Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           O     --------- -t - 4.18.0 #1\n[ 3510.400832] Hardware name: Powerleader PR2008AL/H12DSi-N6, BIOS 2.0 04/09/2021\n[ 3510.400835] Call Trace:\n[ 3510.400851]  dump_stack+0x71/0xab\n[ 3510.400860]  print_address_description+0x6b/0x290\n[ 3510.400865]  ? iavf_free_all_tx_resources+0x156/0x160 [iavf]\n[ 3510.400868]  kasan_report+0x14a/0x2b0\n[ 3510.400873]  iavf_free_all_tx_resources+0x156/0x160 [iavf]\n[ 3510.400880]  iavf_remove+0x2b6/0xc70 [iavf]\n[ 3510.400884]  ? iavf_free_all_rx_resources+0x160/0x160 [iavf]\n[ 3510.400891]  ? wait_woken+0x1d0/0x1d0\n[ 3510.400895]  ? notifier_call_chain+0xc1/0x130\n[ 3510.400903]  pci_device_remove+0xa8/0x1f0\n[ 3510.400910]  device_release_driver_internal+0x1c6/0x460\n[ 3510.400916]  pci_stop_bus_device+0x101/0x150\n[ 3510.400919]  pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device+0xe/0x20\n[ 3510.400924]  pci_iov_remove_virtfn+0x187/0x420\n[ 3510.400927]  ? pci_iov_add_virtfn+0xe10/0xe10\n[ 3510.400929]  ? pci_get_subsys+0x90/0x90\n[ 3510.400932]  sriov_disable+0xed/0x3e0\n[ 3510.400936]  ? bus_find_device+0x12d/0x1a0\n[ 3510.400953]  i40e_free_vfs+0x754/0x1210 [i40e]\n[ 3510.400966]  ? i40e_reset_all_vfs+0x880/0x880 [i40e]\n[ 3510.400968]  ? pci_get_device+0x7c/0x90\n[ 3510.400970]  ? pci_get_subsys+0x90/0x90\n[ 3510.400982]  ? pci_vfs_assigned.part.7+0x144/0x210\n[ 3510.400987]  ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x10/0x10\n[ 3510.400996]  i40e_pci_sriov_configure+0x1fa/0x2e0 [i40e]\n[ 3510.401001]  sriov_numvfs_store+0x214/0x290\n[ 3510.401005]  ? sriov_totalvfs_show+0x30/0x30\n[ 3510.401007]  ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x10/0x10\n[ 3510.401011]  ? __check_object_size+0x15a/0x350\n[ 3510.401018]  kernfs_fop_write+0x280/0x3f0\n[ 3510.401022]  vfs_write+0x145/0x440\n[ 3510.401025]  ksys_write+0xab/0x160\n[ 3510.401028]  ? __ia32_sys_read+0xb0/0xb0\n[ 3510.401031]  ? fput_many+0x1a/0x120\n[ 3510.401032]  ? filp_close+0xf0/0x130\n[ 3510.401038]  do_syscall_64+0xa0/0x370\n[ 3510.401041]  ? page_fault+0x8/0x30\n[ 3510.401043]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca\n[ 3510.401073] RIP: 0033:0x7f3a9bb842c0\n[ 3510.401079] Code: 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d d8 cb 2c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 83 3d 89 24 2d 00 00 75 10 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 \u003c48\u003e 3d \n---truncated---","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"iavf: Fix out-of-bounds when setting channels on remove","id":"CVE-2023-53659","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"bpf, cpumap: Handle skb as well when clean up ptr_ring","id":"CVE-2023-53660"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"spi: bcm-qspi: return error if neither hif_mspi nor mspi is available","id":"CVE-2023-53658"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-10-07","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A race condition in the iavf driver causes an out-of-bounds read during device removal, potentially leading to a kernel crash.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53659/"}